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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35243	The life of Oliver Cromwel, Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland being an account of all the battles, sieges, and other military atchievements, wherein he was engaged, in these three nations : and likewise, of his civil administrations while he had the supream government, till his death.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1680 (1680)	Wing C7343; ESTC T135016	57,584	144

having been to this Day of this Opinion and this have been my constant Judgment well known to many that hear me speak if this one thing had been inserted that one thing that this Government should have been and placed in my Family hereditary I would have rejected it And a little after If this be of humane structure and invention and it be an old plotting and contrivance to bring things to this issue and that they are not the births of Providence then they will come to nothing But notwithstanding his Speech was candied over with Scripture phrases and great expressions of his zeal for the good Government of the Land yet these his Actings much discontented the common People whereupon ensued risings in Shropshire Montgomery Nottinghamshire Northumberland and Yorkshire but the most considerable was at Salisbury where Sir J●seph Wagstaff Penruddock and Jones who had formerly been Officers in the late King's Army having gotten together about 200 armed-Men entered Salisbury seized on all the Inns and chief Houses and the Assizes being holden there at that time they took away the Judges Commissions and Pattents and all their Horses and so marched away Sir Henry Slingsby and Sir Richard Malleverer assembled some Forces also in Yorkshire but not being seconded according to their expectation they disperst themselves on their own account For these actings were put to Death Master Lucas Thorp Kensey Graves and Penruddock Sir Henry Slingsby was taken and Imprisoned and aftewards beheaded upon another account as I shall show you in its due place About this time the great Head-piece of Europe joyns his Foxes Tail to our Lions Skin Correspondencies are held betwixt the French and us which occasioning some Jealousies with some other bitter Pills that had before been swallowed but not disgested by the Spaniard caused some Heart-burnings which soon broke forth into an open War first managed by the Generals Pen and Venables who on the 27. of December 1654 with a gallant Fleet set sail from Portsmouth and on the 28 of January following arrived at the Barbadoes where they seized on 18 Holland Merchant Men who contrary to the Ordinance of the long Parliament traffiqued in those Parts from thence they sailed to Hispaniola arriving near to the Port Sancta Domingo where by the deepness of Sands and heat of the Climate being infinitely tired they were by the Spaniards put to Flight and enforced to march back again to their Ships from thence they set-sail to the Island of Jama●ca which after a little resistance they mastered and have since preserved notwithstanding the Spaniards to regain the same landed there with two or three thousand Men but were discomsited with the Loss of all their Cannon and Baggage In the Interim General Blake with a considerable Fleet of Ships having cast Anchor before Tunis April 18 1655. sent unto the Dey of the Place demanding satisfaction for some English Ships which the Pyrates of those parts had carried away and the Liberty of the English Slaves they had detained but his message and himself was refused with scorn and derision the Turk making this answer Behold our Castles of Galleta and our Castles and Vessels of Port● Ferino do your worst against them and do no● think to brave us with the sight of your grea● Fleet. This answer so exasperated the English Admiral that notwithstanding there were one hundred and twenty Guns planted on the Shore and in the Castle against them yet regardless of all danger he set upon their Men of War which lay in Port● Ferino and in less then in four Hours space burnt all their Ships being in number nine to their very Keels which enforced the King of Tunis to seek to the English for their friendship and restored all the Prisoners for little or nothing These successes were seconded by two other great Victories obtained over th● Spaniards at Sea the one by Genera Mountague about nine Leagues from Cadiz where he destroyed six of their Ship whereof two were taken two run aground one sunk and another burnt and there● the Marquess of Badex his Wife and Daughter the young Marquess and h● Brother with a great deal of Wealth bei● taken and brought into England Th● Fight being incomparably related by 〈◊〉 Laureat of our times I thought fit to inse● it not to deprive the Reader of so Elegant a Poem let him wave the poetical Flattery of it as he pleases Upon the present War with Spain and the first Victory obtained at Sea NOw for some Ages had the Pride of Spain Made the Sun shine on half th' world invain While she bid War to to all that durst supply The place of those her Cruelty made dye Of Nature's Bounty Men forbear to taste And the best Portion of the Earth lay waste From the New World her Silver and her Gold Came like a Tempest to confound the Old Feeding with these the brib'd Elector's Hopes She made at Pleasure Emperors and Popes With these advancing her unjust Designs Europe was shaken with her Indian Mines When our Protector looking with disdain Vpon this gilded Majesty of Spain And knowing well that Empire must decline Whose chief support and sinews are of Coyn Our Nation's solid vertue did oppose To the rich Troublers of the World's repose And now some months encamping on the main Our Naval Army had besieged Spain They that the whole Worlds Monarchy design●d Are to their Ports by our bold Fleet confin'd From whence our Red Cross they triumphant see Riding without a Rival on the Sea Others may use the Ocean as their road Only the English make it their abode Whose ready Sails with every Wind can flie And make a covenant with th' unconstant Skie Our Oaks secure as if they there took root We tread on Billows with a steady foot Mean while the Spaniards in America Near to the Line the Sun approaching saw And hop'd their European Coasts to find Cleard from our Ships by the Autumnal Wind. Their huge capacious Gallions stuft with Plate The labouring Winds drives slowly towards their Fate Before Saint Lucar they their Guns discharge To tell their Joy or to invite a Barge This heard some Ships of ours tho' out of view As swift as Eagles to the Quarry flew So heedless Lambs which for their Mothers bleat Wake hungry Lions and become their Meat Arriv'd they soon begin that Tragick Play And with their smoaky Cannon banish Day Night horrour slaughter with confusion meets And in their sable Arms embrace the Fleets Through yielding Planks the angry Bullets fly And of one Wound hundreds together die Born under different Stars one Fate they have The Ship their Coffin and the Sea their Grave Bold were the Men which on the Ocean first Spread their new Sails shipwreck was the worst More danger now from Men alone we find Then from the Rocks the Billows or the Wind. They that had sail'd from the Antartick Pole Their Treasure safe and all their Vessels whole In sight of their dear